Michelle Hanlon
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Michelle Hanlon is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Hanlon’s research focuses on accounting for income taxes, book-tax differences and investors use of the information in book-tax differences, tax effects on corporate finance decisions, dividend tax capitalization, and stock option compensation, including accounting for the related taxes, the accounting returns to granting options, risk-taking incentive effects and potential negative incentive effects, such as incentives to report fraudulent accounting earnings.  She obtained her PhD at the University of Washington, and she is currently a visiting professor at MIT.